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Alaskanbullworm
03-19-2003, 06:00 PM
A new Tim Burton film is starting production, I hope it's stop-motion animation.

http://www.animated-movies.net/TheCorpseBride.html


New Warner Bros. Exec. VP Goes to the Grave with Tim Burton

Bob Brassel, who has been bumped up to the post of executive VP of production at Warner Bros., is slated to oversee the development of Superman and Tim Burton's upcoming stop-motion feature Corpse Bride, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Corpse Bride is based on an old Eastern European folktale that has been the subject of a number of storybooks and plays throughout the years. In an interview, Nightmare Before Christmas director Henry Selick told Animation Magazine Online that Burton has been working on the film for six years and that it will be produced in England. It remains to be seen if Burton will remain committed to stop-motion or make a switch to CG as he did with Mars Attacks.

Brassel began his career at Warner Bros. in 1989 and was later involved in the production of The Fugitive, Outbreak and Interview With the Vampire. After leaving for a five-year stint at DreamWorks, he returned to Warners in 2001 as a senior vp.
GL2k2
03-19-2003, 06:22 PM
Sounds good to me. Looking forward to another stop motion pic. I didn't like James and the Peach, I think it was too "light". I wish Tim would adapt "Where the Wild Things Are", but he wounld't be true to the artwork.
Scythemantis
03-19-2003, 06:51 PM
How so? Considering how Mars Attacks! Looked and burton's love of classics, I think all the "wild things" would look exactly the same in something done by him.

Note that burton had no involvement in james and the giant peach. Selick did it and monkeybone on his own (I liked both some)

I heard a tiny, tiny little blurb about the corpse bride about four or five years ago...It was just one sentence in one magazine so I had forgotten all about it and assumed he wasn't doing it.

I heard it would be stop motion.
Leaping Larry Jojo
03-19-2003, 07:13 PM
Originally posted by GL2k2
Sounds good to me. Looking forward to another stop motion pic. I didn't like James and the Peach, I think it was too "light". I wish Tim would adapt "Where the Wild Things Are", but he wounld't be true to the artwork.

The mix of live-action actors and stop-motionn animation bothered me in James and the Peach. I hope nobody tries that again.
Lachesis
03-19-2003, 07:21 PM
I thought James was pretty cool. Very interesting to look at, and there were some neat tricks in the visuals, particularly the toothy U-boat shark.

Had that neat Roald Dahl evil humor down pat too.
:D
StrangerAtaru
03-19-2003, 08:03 PM
Hey I liked "James and the Giant Peach". While not like "Nightmare Before Christmas", it had a lot of the feel of the darkness Burton loves as well as the cynicism of Roald Dahl.
Anarky
03-19-2003, 08:13 PM
anything Burton does is GOLD...even Mars Attacks!, which was meant to be a campy spoof of the genre. It accomplished what it set out to do: cool visuals and a barrel of laughs.

Looking forward to this (Xmas '04?)
TimTwoFace
03-20-2003, 01:41 AM
Hey, any new movie by Burton is good news to me. Especially a movie with such a...well...morbid title as this. Sounds like just his style. :)

-Tim